Goodbye Dr Lim

I think last week I blogged about this nice uncle, Dr Lim Say Wan, who was suffering from cancer. Yesterday he was called home to the Lord. I am sure going to miss seeing him in church and having this nice man remember my name.

I attended his wake service yesterday. During the service, pastor Andrew gave a very meaningful sermon on how we finish our life. This was followed by short eulogies by Dr Lim's friends. What struck me about the entire service as well as what was said about him was that it really doesn't matter how successful you are or how rich you are or even how many friends you have. At the end of the day it is how you have touched lives and how one chooses to glorify God even through the pain and suffering.

It was shared that even during His last few days on earth, through the pain, Dr Lim, though a relatively young Christian continued to be thankful to God and chose to praise and glorify Him with whatever few words he could muster. He's was also remembered as a perfect gentleman by many and how he made the effort to remember the names of the people he meets and be genuinely concerned about them.

Though this man had a superbly illustrious career as a doctor, locally and internationally and was obviously very well to do, it was to me, the 'big' things in life that he chose to do that will continue to live on in the lives of those who have been blessed by know him.

So uncle, lucky you for getting to chill with Jesus in the big house up there but I'm certainly going to miss the warm sincere "Hi (my name). How are you?".